Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.


The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Passages from the French and Italian note-books [c1883 (ed. 1883)


Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.